Lead Data Engineer (AWS Data Platform)
NorthBay Solutions4 months ago
Lahore, PakistanStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines using PySpark, AWS Glue, and Amazon EMR.
- Build and optimize data ingestion, transformation, and distributed processing frameworks for structured and semi-structured data.
- Develop and maintain enterprise data warehouse solutions using Amazon Redshift.
- Write complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and data transformations for analytics and reporting.
- Implement ETL/ELT processes across multiple systems and platforms.
- Tune and optimize Spark jobs, ETL pipelines, SQL queries, and Redshift workloads.
- Ensure data quality, integrity, security, and governance across data platforms.
- Troubleshoot production issues and conduct root cause analysis for data incidents.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, analysts, architects, and engineering teams on data requirements.
- Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and best-practice implementation.
- Monitor pipelines and identify opportunities for performance improvement and automation.
- Maintain technical documentation, data models, and operational procedures.
Requirements
- 5 to 8+ years of experience in data engineering and data warehousing.
- Strong hands-on experience with PySpark, AWS Glue, Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, and SQL development.
- Experience with dimensional modeling, ETL/ELT processes, large-scale datasets, and distributed data processing.
- Experience tuning Spark jobs, SQL queries, ETL pipelines, and data warehouse workloads.
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Relevant AWS certifications are advantageous.
- Preferred experience includes AWS S3, IAM, CloudWatch, Lambda, Step Functions, workflow orchestration tools, data governance, security, and compliance practices.
- Ability to work independently and collaborate with geographically distributed teams.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in Pakistan.
- Candidates must be available during UAE business hours and follow UAE public holidays.
- The role involves collaboration with a UAE-based customer and distributed teams.
Tech Stack
Amazon RedshiftSQL
Categories
Data Engineering
About NorthBay Solutions
NorthBay Solutions is a privately held IT services firm that helps enterprises modernize on AWS through cloud migration, data engineering, and AI/ML solutions. An AWS Premier Consulting Partner founded in 2010 and headquartered in Andover, MA, it also partners with Snowflake and provides managed services, DevOps enablement, and application development. The company operates distributed teams across the US, Canada, UAE, India, and Pakistan.